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Definitions
a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children
Word origin
From Middle French ferule (modern French férule), from Latin ferula (“giant fennel”). Doublet of ferula.
Used in a sentence
“In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, […].”
“The master, who stood at the end of the room, with a huge ferule under his arm, bent full upon me a look of stern appeal; […]”
“And they were right in their assumption; I could cudgel a great lubberly delinquent of a boy[…]but when it came to feruling a girl[…]my manhood rebelled[…].”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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